Torus (disambiguation)

A torus , pl. tori, is a type of surface.

Torus may also refer to:

Music

• Torus (album), a 2013 album by Sub Focus
• Torus, a 2017 EP by Merzbow (Masami Akita)

Science and technology

Architecture

• A semicircular molding – see Molding (decorative)#Types

Astrophysics

• Three-torus model of the universe, a model for describing the shape of the universe

Biology

• Receptacle (botany), the thickened part of a stem from which the flower and fruit parts grow
• Sagittal keel, or sagittal torus, a structure found in crania
• Torus, a structure of the xylem

Mathematics

• Solid torus, a solid whose surface is a torus.
• Torus knot
• Algebraic torus
• Umbilic torus
• Genus-2 surface, also called "double torus"
• Maximal torus
• Clifford torus

Medicine

• Torus palatinus, a bony growth on the palate
• Torus mandibularis, a bony growth on the mandible
• Torus tubarius, the base of the opening of Eustachian tube into the nasopharynx
• Torus fracture, a term used in radiology to describe an incomplete fracture of the distal radius in children where there is no obvious fracture line on any radiograph.

Nuclear physics

• Torus (nuclear physics), a subtype of tokamak
• Joint European Torus, an experimental nuclear fusion reactor

Other uses

• TORUS Project – A United States meteorological research project
• Torus (housing association)
• Torus – a novel by James Follett – 1990
• Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative's Online Educational Platform

See also

• Toroidal (disambiguation)
• Tokamak